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What type of paints have people haduck with? On the DD? And in the bilge?
 
Amen brother. My er is not nasty, but not pretty. I too am making my way around it. Long way to go but they run clean and smooth. Short of being retired there's never enough time in the day to do everything, so boat rides sometimes take precedent.
 
My ER is probably somewhere in between. The engines are maintained carefully and the ER is reasonably neat. And of course as I have said before, it gets lots of use. Some rust spots have been touched up (AKA Rustoleum rebuild), but I wonder how long these touchups will last given the difficulty of surface preparation. Does anybody have 5-10 years on a touchup job? If so, was it a permanent repair or did it peel again?

Bobk
 
POR-15 engine paints are very durable. Just don't get it on your hands, because it takes weeks to come off.
 
If you're restoring it's a tough process. Mine needed to have all those components removed, cleaned or replaced. Otherwise it would not have received all that attention. The rest of the ER looks slightly better now. i.e. the cover on the water tank has been painted, the battery switches, cables and some of the spaghetti electrical is slowly disappearing. Yes, it's a long road. But to show that I have my priorities in order, the rest of the boat looks even worse.

One thing that seems to be working for me is spraying them down with WD-40 once a year. Primarily to keep the sweat off them in the winter. It does tend to attract some dirt, but a spritz with more WD and wipedown with a clean cloth usually solves that.
 
dottieshusband said:
http://m.ebay.com/itm/DETROIT-DIESEL-12V71-EMBLEM-SATIN-/311400843732?nav=SEARCH

They are peel and stickers..very nice, and they have them for all Detroits
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The ad says "3D design" so they sound like the same etched zinc nameplates with peel/stick backs I used to buy for the tapping machines I manufactured.

If so the price of those eBay one's sounds awfully high... seems like I paid maybe $2 each back in the late 90's and I ordered in pretty low quantities for a manufacturer....maybe 50 at a time. Mine were two color...maybe the third color would have run the price up another 50 cents.
 
bobk said:
My ER is probably somewhere in between. The engines are maintained carefully and the ER is reasonably neat. And of course as I have said before, it gets lots of use. Some rust spots have been touched up (AKA Rustoleum rebuild), but I wonder how long these touchups will last given the difficulty of surface preparation. Does anybody have 5-10 years on a touchup job? If so, was it a permanent repair or did it peel again?

Bobk
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There's not too much wrong with your ER that a bit more room wouldn't fix. The engines look fine for the amount of time you run them. Actually pretty good for their use. The problem is all the stuff stored there. I have come up with a new idea. Its a tow behind utility trailer on floats.
 
I actually run mine and run them hard. Will they run better or faster with pretty paint?
 

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I wanna play!!! I wanna play!!! My little gassers which are obviously easier to keep clean than diesels, and freshwater doesn't hurt either.



 
Figured I'd help out Lt. Da-an since he put his pics in the wrong thread. :D

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Your wasting your breath there Mr Smith.
 
rsmith said:
Newsflash!!! It's way more "pleasant" to be out on the water than polishing your engines.
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Note the operative phrase was "when needed" .
 
Freeebird said:
My little gassers which are obviously easier to keep clean than diesels, and freshwater doesn't hurt either.
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From a maintenance standpoint we'd all be thrilled to be in fresh water.
 
Everything plastic and rubber these days is just garbage no matter how much you pay. I'd just like to have a rubber band that lasts more than a week
 
rsmith said:
That wire mould raceway has that yellow look it gets right befor it starts disintegrating.
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I guess the lighting makes it look a bit yellow on some computer screens but it's actually original tan color. I've had some of it off attempting to trace a water tank send unit wire and it flexes the same as it does on late model CNC machines I deal with. Certainly it won't last forever but seems to be just fine for now.
 
rsmith said:
Everything plastic and rubber these days is just garbage no matter how much you pay. I'd just like to have a rubber band that lasts more than a week
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I have 75,000 miles on the rears of my dually pickup truck and I think they will be fine for another 8k at least. Did have to replace the front tires at 65,000 miles. But the point is decades ago that tire rubber would need replacement at 30,000 miles or less.
 
rsmith said:
I actually run mine and run them hard. Will they run better or faster with pretty paint?
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In the mid and long term, yes.
 
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